Pretty ice (get the camera ready if the sun comes out!) is pretty heavy when there's enough of it, leading to week-long power outages after all the trees fall down at once and crews are brought in from Texas to help.

Beautiful, yes, but treacherous! I think the cab companies are still closed down. Snow upon ice upon snow upon ice. And poor Clinton has had to cancel her speech at the Monona Terrace. Betcha she's wishing she'd gotten to Wisconsin sooner. Which fable is that? "The Ant and the Grasshopper?"

Mikey Carver: Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it's like in a way you're eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don't eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating. (The Ice Storm, 1997)

Global warming models show the jet stream (the boundary between cold air and warm air) moving northward. This will result in a drier climate in the southern half of the United States but wetter winters further north.